Full coverage: Egypt

05.07.2007 Aivovuodosta pyritään eroon lisäämällä opiskelijoiden ja tutkijoiden liikkuvuutta EU:n ja välimeren maiden välillä. Informaatio- ja kommunikaatioteknologiat näyttelevät merkittävää osaa alkavassa yhteistyossä. Suunnitteilla on muun muassa Välimeren alueen monikielisen digitaalisen kirjaston perustaminen.

13.06.2006 Johanesburg, Afrika Jugore – APC (Shoqata për Komunikime Progresive) dënon arrestimin e padrejtë të blogerëve dhe gazetarëve në Egjipt të cilët shprehen lirshëm. Alaa Seif Al-Islam, një bloger i kalitur dhe kolegë nga APC-ja, është një nga katër personat që mbajnë ditar online të cilët mbahen nën arrest për kritikat e dhëna ndaj regjimit aktual, që nga 7 maji. Për më shumë, APC ka dëgjuar raporte shqetësuese mbi veprimet e dhunshme të ndërmarra nga ana e sigurimit të shtetit kundër blogerëve të cilit liruar nga arresti javën e kaluar, vetëm që të arrestohen sërish më pastaj. Autoritetet kanë parandaluar avokatët e të drejtave të njeriut nga vizitat e blogerëve të cilët kanë qenë të rrahur dhe të torturuar të enjten, më 25 maj.

21.02.2006 Sobeih sets the context by explaining that Egypt has become one of the leaders in the technology sector across the Arab region.

07.02.2006 The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) will be amending licences as of 20 February to enable Internet service providers (classes A and B) to obtain international bandwidth. The Minister of Communications and Information Technology further said that the Information Technology and Development Agency (ITDA) has granted four licences for e-signatures which would help the local community in boosting e-commerce."

12.01.2006 The Digital Education Enhancement Project (DEEP) is exploring how information and communications technologies (ICTs) can improve the quality of teacher education and learning. Research looks at primary schools in South AfricaÂ’s Eastern Cape Province and in Cairo, Egypt.

09.11.2005 Forty experts in the areas of information literacy and lifelong learning from all regions of the world are presently gathering for a Colloquium at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.

06.10.2005 Some of the best practices from libraries worldwide serving as public access points to networked information will be presented at “Libraries – the Information Society in Action”, a conference organised by IFLA with UNESCO’s support in Alexandria, Egypt, from 10 to 11 November 2005.

09.11.2004 This document is based on a research about how ICTs can improve literacy, strengthen training of teachers and promote science in the primary schools of Egypt and South Africa.

17.11.2003 Students and education ministry representatives from Egypt, Mexico, South Africa and the United States are coming together for a videoconference conversation on 17 November 2003 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. EST. The conversation will focus on the importance of learning about other countries and other cultures, and the positive role technology can play in international education. The virtual meeting, which will be Webcast live, will be repeated in Mexico, South Africa and Egypt.

16.06.2003 While Egypt organises the Pan-Arab Regional Conference on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) this week in Cairo, a formal open-ended intergovernmental drafting group is being convened from 15 to 18 July 2003 at Unesco headquarters in Paris.

08.06.2003 Global Knowledge Partnership and its two partners will be organising a two-day workshop for young women leaders in information communication technology. Forty women from the Middle East and the North African region will participate in the event, to be held later this month in Egyptian capital Cairo.

01.06.2003 New research reports on the participation of civil society in national ICT policy-making in Egypt, Benin and Cameroon are now available on the APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor Website. The "ICT and Civil Society in Africa" reports were commissioned by APC to explore the role of local civil society organisations in developing and strengthening ICT policy-making at a national level in Africa.

01.06.2003 New research reports on the participation of civil society in national ICT policy-making in Egypt, Benin and Cameroon are now available on the APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor Website. The "ICT and Civil Society in Africa" reports were commissioned by APC to explore the role of local civil society organisations in developing and strengthening ICT policy-making at a national level in Africa.

24.03.2003 Ashok Jhunjhunwala, the entrepreneur-educator of the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, is now working to bring low-cost wireless telephone service to Egypt. The project is part of Jhunjhunwala's vision of bringing affordable telephony and Internet service to the world's poor.

09.03.2003 A project in South Africa and Egypt shows that the impact of using ICTs in the classroom extends further than pupil achievement and classroom practice. It also benefits teachers' professional identities and the community as a whole.

23.02.2003 In Egypt, the police are using the Internet to entrap men on trumped-up charges of 'debauchery', reports Human Rights Watch. A recent court ruling may signal an increasingly harsh campaign of such entrapment, arrest and conviction of men solely on the basis of alleged consensual homosexual conduct, it says.

04.12.2002 Egypt is investing more than US$10 million from a debt-swap agreement with Italy in a new two-year programme to boost computer access, promote computer literacy in schools and adult literacy, and improve livelihoods. The new ICT for Development Programme will provide thousands of Egyptians with access to the Internet and its resources.

31.10.2002 Egypt has moved ahead of other African countries in ICT initiatives through a project that has seen seven million telephone subscribers connected to the Internet.

20.10.2002 Uganda has been elected as one of Africa's representatives on the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council. The Council is the Union's supreme administrative organ and is responsible for policies that include spectrum regulation for telecom and Internet applications. Other African countries that have been elected are: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Mali, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Burkina Faso and Cameroon.

08.09.2002 While free Internet service providers have largely failed as a business model in most countries, a free dial-up service in Cairo is growing in popularity.